Ajenu Surname
Approximately 189 people bear this surname
Ajenu Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 184 | 1:962,732 | 41,060 |
| India | 4 | 1:191,766,346 | 1,073,940 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
Ajenu (56) may also be a first name.
Ajenu Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ajenu Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Ajenu is held by more people in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It can be rendered as a variant:. Click here for other possible spellings of Ajenu.
How Common Is The Last Name Ajenu? popularity and diffusion
It is the 1,231,034th most commonly occurring last name worldwide. It is borne by around 1 in 38,558,444 people. The surname is predominantly found in Africa, where 98 percent of Ajenu live; 97 percent live in West Africa and 97 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 1,321,957th most frequently used first name at a global level, borne by 56 people.
The last name Ajenu is most numerous in Nigeria, where it is carried by 184 people, or 1 in 962,732. In Nigeria it is most common in: Benue, where 66 percent are found, Lagos, where 16 percent are found and Delta, where 6 percent are found. Outside of Nigeria this last name is found in 2 countries. It also occurs in India, where 2 percent are found and Cameroon, where 1 percent are found.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Ajenu
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